Vine Quick Reads: 10 October 2025

Vine Quick Reads: 10 October 2025

Welcome to our Quick Reads format. Each week we share selected news bites relevant to family violence and sexual violence in Aotearoa.

New series of reports captures whānau Māori voices on health and wellbeing

Te Mātuku, the iwi-Māori partnership board for Te Ranga Tupua, has released their Whānau Voice series. The four-report series captured whānau Māori voices from across Whanganui, Rangitīkei, Ruapehu and parts of South Taranaki. The reports were produced to help guide local health authorities, ensuring Māori health needs and priorities are reflected in decision-making. The reports are broad in scope and reveal that wellbeing is inseparable from equity of access, cultural safety and trust. For more, see Whanganui Chronicle’s coverage, Te Mātuku launches whānau voice report series to guide local health decisions.

New report on young people’s perspectives on Relationship and Sexuality Education (RSE) from Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa

Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa (SWA) has published Young People’s Perspectives on Relationship and Sexuality Educations (RSE) Online Survey Report | Executive Summary (2025). This provides an overview of SWA’s survey of more than 1000 participants aged 16-20 on what they thought about RSE in schools. The summary covers methodology, participant demographics, and a high-level summary of responses. For more information, see the Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa media release: “Give us more” – young people want sex ed to be earlier, longer, and more inclusive.

United Nations’ violence related calls for input

The United Nations has issued calls for input on two violence-related issues:

• The Special Rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children has issued a call for input for the final report on new patterns of sale, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children. Input is due by Friday 31 October 2025 (NZ).
• The Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has issued a call for input on the preparation of guidelines on the prevention, eradication, punishment, and reparation of violence based on disability. The call is open to all persons with disabilities and/or their representative organisations. Input is due by Sunday 30 November 2025 (NZ).

Information on making a submission for either can be found at each of the links above.

Remarks from United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture (SPT) on their second visit to Aotearoa

The United Nations SPT recently concluded their second visit to Aotearoa and have issued a media release: New Zealand needs to cut prison population and strengthen oversight, UN torture prevention body says. The SPT made unannounced visits to a range of facilities including prisons, police stations, youth justice and care and protection residences, as well as care homes for the elderly. The SPT will submit a confidential report to the Government with its observations and recommendations and will encourage the Government to publicly release it. For more, see Te Kāhui Tika Tangata | Human Rights Commission’s media release.

Resources on consent and healthy relationships in Latin American Communities in Aotearoa

Shama recently highlighted two Spanish-language video resources on consent and healthy relationships in Latin communities in Aotearoa. The videos were produced by MiTuakiri, an online platform that helped facilitate the social integration Latin American migrants in Aotearoa, as part of the 2021 Shama prevention of sexual violence program. Though MiTuakiri is no longer active, the videos remain as sexual violence prevention resources for both Latin American and other ethnic communities in Aotearoa.